Articles Tagged 'Graham Chapman'

It’s always a cause for celebration when episodes of a long-lost TV series suddenly come to light. It was when those missing 1960s Doctor Who adventures were discovered a couple of years ago and it is now, as the British Film Institute announces that it has found two missing episodes of At Last the 1948 […]

When it comes to prestige, the British education system works on a fairly simple hierarchy. There’s no Ivy League, no jostling for position. There is Oxford University and its many colleges, and there is Cambridge University and its many colleges, and then there is everywhere else. That’s not to say Manchester or Durham or Edinburgh […]

Think of this less as a quiz, and more of a pickle. A pickle encased in an enigma wrapped in a riddle in a burrito in a hand in a house in a suburb in a town. By embarking on a journey to discover which member of the Monty Python team you are, are you […]

Michael Bond, creator of Paddington Bear, has been faced with a puzzle this week. It seems that the movie of his most famous creation has been rated PG (for parental guidance) by the British Board of Film Categorization, for what they describe as “dangerous behaviour, mild threat, mild sex references (and) mild bad language.” Which […]

If you’ve been following the news about the reunited cast of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and their forthcoming ten London concerts, while looking gloomily at the fluff in your pockets and wondering how on earth you could possibly get to see their final hurrah…we’ve good news. On July 20, Picturehouse Entertainment—the people who put the […]

This is a delight on two levels. One: It’s a reswizzled trailer for Monty Python and the Holy Grail made by Stéphane Bouley, and using all of the most common tricks trailermakers use to try and add booming gravitas to every tiny moment in a film. So it has the tribal drumming, the snapshot fades, […]

For Monty Python fans one of the big attractions of the Toronto Film Festival has been a new film devoted to the late Graham Chapman – one of the stars of the legendary BBC TV comedy series of forty years ago. The 3D film – which is called A Liar’s Autobiography – The Untrue Story […]

OK, so here’s the deal. It’s a film called A Liar’s Autobiography, based on the autobiography written by Graham Chapman (liar, and member of the Monty Python team). It’s also an animated history of his life made by 14 different animation studios, and voiced by Graham, and his Pythonic chums John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry […]

Now that it’s all over but the blogging, here’s a quick look at five items with British angles from this weekend’s Comic Con in New York City. Graham Chapman’s The Liar’s Autobiography I decided to resist coming to any judgment about The Liar’s Autobiography based on the weekend panel. The 3D movie is apparently one […]

The history of the Monty Python team is currently undergoing a very thorough excavation for dramatic purposes, as there are not one but two dramatic re-enactments of their working lives in production. BBC Four have commissioned the Life of Brian comedy drama Holy Flying Circus, and now Graham Chapman’s memoirs are to be made into […]